How to make a PowerPoint with AI

The mechanics take a minute. What you type into the box decides whether the deck is any good, so that's most of what follows.

Screenshots are of the actual product, taken 2026-08-04. Timings are from a 30-deck measured run.

Step 1 — Write a brief, not a topic

A topic gives the model nothing to work with, so it fills the gap with the most generic possible treatment of the subject. That's what people mean by AI slop.

The PresentationPPT composer with an empty prompt box — The composer. One box, and the two controls that matter.

Compare these two inputs for the same meeting:

Quarterly business review for our SaaS company

Quarterly business review. Revenue by quarter: Q1 1.8M, Q2 2.4M, Q3 2.2M, Q4 3.1M. Net revenue retention fell from 112% to 97% in Q3 after two enterprise churns. Support tickets doubled. We shipped SSO and an admin console. Decision needed on whether to hire two CSMs or build self-serve onboarding.

The first produces a plausible template. The second produces a chart of your actual revenue, a slide that names the retention drop as the problem, and a closing slide that puts the decision in front of the room. Same tool, thirty seconds more typing.

The composer filled in with a detailed brief and slide count set to 10 — A brief with numbers in it. This is the version that produces a deck worth presenting.

Step 2 — Pick a slide count you would actually sit through

Ask for fewer slides than instinct suggests. Ten slides of argument beats eighteen of padding, and a shorter request forces the model to decide what matters instead of covering everything.

One honest caveat from our own measurements: 24 of 30 decks came back at exactly the requested count. The rest were one or two out. Treat the number as a target rather than a contract.

Step 3 — Generate

Median generation time across the run was 15.4 seconds. Long or complex briefs take longer — the 90th percentile was 62 seconds and the slowest deck, a 16-slide request built from several hundred words of pasted prose, took 88.8 seconds.

The result page showing the generated deck title and download button — The result page. Every slide previews at the exact geometry it will have in the file.

Step 4 — Read it before you present it

The generator is instructed not to invent statistics, and charts are only built from numbers you supplied. That is a meaningful constraint, and it is not a guarantee. Read the deck. If you see a number you didn't give it, don't trust it.

Generated slides including a native bar chart of revenue by quarter — Numbers in the brief become a chart. This one is a real PowerPoint chart object, not an image of one.

Step 5 — Download and finish it in PowerPoint

The download is a .pptx. Open it, and everything behaves the way a hand-built deck behaves: text boxes are text boxes, charts open a worksheet when you choose Edit Data, and speaker notes are in the notes pane. Rewrite the two lines you disagree with and you're done.

Five things that change the output

Give it your numbers

Of the 30 decks in our run, 23 came back with a chart built from figures in the brief. Without numbers there is nothing to chart, and you get prose on slides.

Do not pre-summarise your notes

Paste them raw. Summarising first throws away the detail the model would have used to decide what deserves a slide, and you end up summarising a summary.

Say who it is for and what you want out of the room

"For the board, we need a decision on hiring" changes the structure. It moves the decision to the front and cuts the background section that a teaching deck would need.

One number is a callout, not a pie chart

A single figure rendered as a three-slice pie is one of the most recognisable tells of a generated deck. If you have one number that matters, say so, and it becomes a full-slide callout instead.

Titles should be claims

"Churn doubled in Q2" is a slide title. "Churn" is a label. If you write your brief in claims, the deck comes back in claims.

What it will not do

Hit your slide count exactly, every time.
Invent data you did not give it — by design, but it means a thin brief gives a thin deck.
Read a file yet. We're building uploads for PDF, Word and Excel next.
Match your brand. Brand kits are a planned Pro feature and are not built yet.

The composer is on the homepage. No setup, no account.

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